The Religion of Richard Dawkins

A look back 13.7 billion years ago to the big bang, the yelp, the evolution of stars, gravitational collapse, galaxy formation, second law of thermodynamics, the formation of the milky way, through to the gas giants neptune and uranus, their energy output and gravity abnormalities, cellular evolution, the beginning of life to mammalian evolution. Evolution and creationism explored, atheism looked into, the meaningless existence of random chance and theoretic physics quantum fluctuation.

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Wonderful video...wonderful!

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife Of course frameshifting has been shown to be used in organisms in a pre-programmed way. Hep B uses this technique to produce four different enzymes from overlapping DNA. The more we know about DNA the more we realise we don't know about how the DNA is pre-programmed to change via design through promoters, inhibitors and transposable elements (ERV's / LINEs / SINEs). What used to be known as JUNK DNA (Evolutionary term) is now becomming more vital then the actual genes.

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife More technical in regard to the production of nylonase only on plasmids: There seems to be a special mechanism that recombines parts of the genes in the plasmids in a way that is non-random. This is shown by the absence of stop codons, which would be generated if the variation were random.

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife Also interesting that psuedomonas was discovered in 1872 and has shown no directional evolutionary change. This is the equivalent of tens of millions of human years.

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife Depends on your definition of information. If you duplicate the same gene multiple times you have more information but not specific complex information. This is clear in language. The phrase ANG ANG ANG ANG ANG doesn't mean much despite how many times you repeat it although it is more information. However TOM AND SAM SAT actually has increased complex information. The gene duplicate is then subject to the same degradative processes as the original.

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife I am not sure where I got the information that nylonase was a degenerate enzyme... however I would not be surprised if one day it is found.

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife My usual argument with nylonase follow these lines. One can get de-novo nylonase in pseudomonas in 9 days (this suggests that there is a designed process in place to deal with different food sources rather then an evolutionary one which should take much longer). Despite multiple experimentation on non-nylonase psuedomonas the nylonase gene always develops on the same places on plasmids (also suggesting a preprogrammed designed step).

[alstoq]

@itzahazylife ERV's have shown to be essential in vital processes within the human and other animals. This includes embryo development and according to Conley (Bioinformatics - 2008) are involved in the transcription of 20% of the human genome. They are therefore not accidental insertions of retroviruses but specifically designed for the normal function of the DNA. There are therefore not JUNK DNA and are required by all mammals.

[itzahazylife]

@alstoq

You also don't understand ERV's. ERV's insert themselves into about only 1% of the genome. All descendants will have the ERV in the same exact location as the ancestor who was the original possessor of the ERV. And what do ya know? Chimps and humans share 16 ERV insertion sites, which all happen to be in the exact same chromosomal locations. This is almost 100% proof that chimps and humans both branched off from a single common ancestor.

[itzahazylife]

@alstoq

Nylonase was an entirely new gene that a certain strain of bacteria developed to digest nylon. An entirely new gene evolved. You are proven wrong. Please correct your false beliefs so you can progress in your education of science.